Marble: a miracle of nature and the material of great artists since antiquity
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The Aesthetics of Marble
From Late Antiquity to the Present
This magnificent book sheds new light on the celebration and uses of marble in art and literature and on the iconic potential of the stone. With 240 color illustrations, it showcases the marble cladding of architecture, the carving of marble and painting on stone, their political and philosophical connotations, and the de- and re-materialising of marble made possible by digital technology.
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Marble is a metamorphic stone that has been a material of choice and a subject of reflection for millennia. Its geology, history, and economics are well known, but its aesthetics remain understudied. This volume contributes to the anthropology of materials, as well as to ideas of labor, technology and artists’ sensitivity to the qualities of stone and its veining. Through empirical research centered on the Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the present, this book closely examines the artistic versatility of marble in its uses and re-uses.
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Ein umfangreicher und opulent bebilderter Band. // A comprehensive and opulently illustrated volume.
DOCMA Magazin
Der vorliegende Band ergänzt die seit fünfzig Jahren etablierte Materialikonographie um eine Reihe von beeindruckenden Einzelstudien und eine nüchterne, aber festliche Opulenz. Indem er die transkulturelle Ästhetik von Marmor unterstreicht, bringt er die Kunstgeschichte als international führende Geisteswissenschaft einen bedeutenden Schritt voran. // This volume adds a number of impressive individual studies and a sober but festive opulence to the material iconography that has been established for fifty years. By highlighting the transcultural aesthetics of marble, it takes art history a significant step forward as a leading international humanities discipline.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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Contributions by M.Baker, A. Forty, D. Gamboni, D. F. Guerra, M. Guidetti, F. Guzmán, J. B. Lohff, A. Lowe. D. Mondini, S. Mouquin, M. Ocón Fernández, S. Papapetros, A. Parigoris, A. Payne, P. Piaresi, J. N. Richardson, R. Rosenberg, C. Skene Catling, M. T. Stauffer, C. Wohlrab, G. Wolf
380 pages, 258 color illustrations22 x 28 cm, hardcover with dust jacket
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3448-3
Keywords
Sculpture, sculptor
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